A few years ago, my mom bought me some awesome, fun heels for my birthday. I’m the first to admit, I’m not a shoe person. I LOVE (other people’s) shoes but I can never justify spending money on them. I’m more likely to rotate the same 4 shoes into my weekly wardrobe, saving the pretty stuff for special occasions (like my DIY-bling wedding shoes). I wore the pretty and colorful heels for my birthday in 2008 and sang some karaoke with my sister:

We were rockstars!

In 2009 I was living in Nashville, and may have had to remove my heels for walking purposes:

For whatever reason, I never had the guts to wear them on any other occasion. So I now refer to them as my Birthday Heels.

Let’s fast-forward. I moved from Nashville to Fargo to be with my now-husband, and about a year later we got a puppy. Don’t let these innocent eyes betray you:

Because Nash’s personality is better represented here:

And he ate my birthday shoes.

Luckily, I caught him before he dug into the actual SHOE and he only ate the ribbon part. I couldn’t bear to throw them away because he didn’t seem to absolutely ruin them, they seemed fixable. Time went on…and I didn’t get to wear them for my next birthday or the one after that. They sat in my closet for two years, patiently waiting for me to have a shoe epiphany. I found them in my closet a few weeks ago and thought to myself “I WILL wear my birthday heels this year!” My birthday is not until April, but when I get a bug in me to do something crafty I can’t wait.

I carefully removed the half-eaten ribbon, which to my surprise was simply sewed onto the shoe. I snipped the stitches and was left with a shoe that was decent, but seemed a little naked to me.

Around the same time, I was browsing Pinterest I found this ribbon rosette tutorial:

It is easy to follow and I just happen to have an entire drawer full of scrap ribbon! I spent about 3 minutes on each one. I love my re-styled rosette birthday heels!

Now if I can figure out how to fix a strappy pair of wedges that Nash also ate…